202 APIDJE. 



B. senilis, named by Fabricius, in the Banksian collection is also a 

 faded worker of Bombus muscorum. 



4. Bombus elegans. 



B. hirsutns, ater, supra flavus, thorace fascia atra. 



Bombus elegans, Seidl, Stett. ent. Zeit. (1873) p. 335. 

 Bombus fragrans, Illig. May. v. 105 <$ (nee Pallas). 



Dahlb. Bomb. Scand. 40, tab. fig. 1(3 $ . 



St. -Vary. Hym. i. 464. 



Drews. $ Sc'hibdte, Kroy. Tidsskr. ii. 121 (1838). 



Smith, Bees Great Brit. 216; Entomol. iii. 208. 



Nyland. Notis. ur Stilish. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 229. 



Thorns. Ojmsc. Ent. 251. 

 Apis fragrans, Kirby, Mon. Apum Any I. ii. 329 <$ (nee Pallas). 

 Bombus distiuguendus, Morow. Horce Soc. Ent. JRossicce, vi. 32. 



Thorns. Hym. Scand. ii. 20. 



Female. Length 8-10 lines. — Head, the face has a pale fulvous 

 pubescence, more or less obscured and intermixed with black hairs ; 

 the pubescence on the thorax above yellow, more or less inclining 

 to fulvous, and having a band of black pubescence between the 

 wings ; the pubescence on the legs is also black. Abdomen clothed 

 with bright yellow pubescence, having usually more or less of a 

 fulvous tinge towards the base. B.M. 



Worker. Length 5-7 lines. — Excepting in size, there is no differ- 

 ence between the workers and females. B.M. 



Hale. Length 6-7 lines. — Closely resembling the worker, but 

 having the pubescence on the face and cheeks paler, the antennae 

 as long as the thorax, the abdomen narrower aud more elongate. 



B.M. 

 This species has hitherto been regarded as the Bombus fragrans of 

 Pallas, which is a much larger insect and has dark brown wings. The 

 bee has the same agreeable odour that suggested its name in the first 

 instance ; but the descriptions of older authors are usually much too 

 brief, and the size of a species is only occasionally given. 



This is a scarce species in the south of England, but has been 

 occasionally taken at Hampstead, Shirley Common, Norwood, Lowe- 

 stoft, Yarmouth, and on Durdham Downs, near Bristol ; in the north 

 it is more common. I found its nest in Yorkshire, and on dis- 

 turbing it the bees emitted a powerful aromatic odour ; the commu- 

 nity, although it contained males and females, was small. 



5. Bombus smithianus. 



B. hirsutus, ater, thorace supra fulvo : abdomine supra flavescente, 

 subtus nigro. 



Bombus smithianus, White, Proc. Linn. Soe. (1851) ; Ann. Sf May. 

 Nat. Hist. x. 2nd ser. 294. 



Smith, Bees Great Brit. 215; Entomol. iii. 268. 



